Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 14:58:46 -0400 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: linux 3d applications keep crashing Message-ID: <18877.20454.158768.486331@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <1237142357.1774.14.camel@balrog.2hip.net> References: <38992BCD-BFD6-47F7-B707-54415801CCEB@gmail.com> <18877.1409.511002.357436@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <1237142357.1774.14.camel@balrog.2hip.net>
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Robert Noland writes: > > The alternative - which sounds seductive but may have its own > > issues - would be to fill the Nvidia requests and let them write and > > maintain the code. Again, worthy project (which might have > > collateral benefits). Again, a lot of work. And an even more > > esoteric skill-set. > > The features that Nvidia has requested are fairly reasonable and > could be used in the open source drivers as well. Question: would anything _other_ than graphics cards find these features useful? > But, even if/when we deliver those features, they may not be > MFC-able. Any ABI changes in either Xorg or our kernel, > generally will render the blob useless... That might be a path worth taking. A one time change, well conceived and executed, that goes along with a ".0" release should not be that disruptive. Robert "in my uninformed guesstimate" Huff
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